This year's a hot one so far

Savannah's warmth isn't just Southern hospitality. NOAA has compiled temperature data from the first nine months of the year and it turns out to be the warmest on record for the contiguous U.S. The NOAA chart lists 180 cities with their average temeperatures and deviations from normal. For Savannah, it was the third warmest January through September, with an average temperature of 71.2 F. Atlanta, by the way, set an absolute record for the same period, but was still slightly cooler than here.